Poetry for Emotions (Mental Health Awareness Month 2024)

Poetry for emotions can help you recognize your feelings. If you are grieving a loss, poetry can assist in your emotional healing and can assist in releasing your feelings. Writing poems can be quick or take two hours depending on how you are feeling. Also, it might be difficult at first especially when you are feeling sadness, frustrations, anger, or resentments. However, you can write poems with your emotions by drafting a short poem with eight words or eight syllables.

Yet, if you want to write more, you can draft a longer poem by following a list of emotions that you have written. Begin by writing a list of the emotions that you are feeling. If the same emotions are repeated twice or more on your list, you can write about that in a poem. Furthermore, you can find templates online to help you write poems about your emotions. Use your senses to describe how you feel or simply write as you go along.

Writing poetry with your emotions can also help you connect with your hidden feelings and feelings that you deny in having. It can make you comprehend yourself as well as a self-reflection of what you are feeling at that present time. Additionally, you will find several ways to write about your emotions through poetry. Poetry prompts are useful because they help you release and let go of emotions through writing. For example, this poem below was written by using an emotions poem template.

It is recommended to name the emotion. Second, describe your emotion using things in nature such as an animal, trees, flowers, or a natural phenomenon in nature. Third, continue describing the emotion with something in nature. Fourth, your poem can rhyme words, but it is optional. Last, if you are writing about an animal describe the animal's behavior and read your poem aloud to make sure that is how you feel. 

The entire family can write poems using their emotions. After drafting their poems, they can read it aloud and share it if they want to share their poem. Plus, they can add a drawing, painting, or craft project to go with their poem which is optional. Last, they can write their poems in a journal or use acid free pens and acid free paper to add it to their scrapbooks. Here are more resources for writing your poetry with your emotions. 

Family Friend Poems-Writing with Emotion:

https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/article-writing-with-emotion

Tips for Writing Emotional Poetry:

https://poemsplease.com/tips-for-writing-emotional-poetry/

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